American Journal of Psychotherapy

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The American Journal of Psychotherapy is a professional journal covering issues in psychotherapy, including book reviews and software reviews. Founded in 1939, the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy publishes the American Journal of Psychotherapy four times a year. Dr. Byram T. Karasu is Editor-in-Chief.

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Articles from Vol. 54, No. 1, Winter

The article by Frederic Wertham, "The Road to Rapallo: A Psychiatric Study," written one-half century ago, could just as well have been written today. The only difference is that psychiatry has become so impressed by its seemingly scientific, diagnostic...

ARNOLD GOLDBERG. Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, The Analytic Press, Hillsdale, NJ, 1999, 200 pp., $34.50, ISBN 0-88163-308-9. Arnold Goldberg, one of the original disciples of Heinz Kohut and proponents of...

LEE ANN HOFF AND KAZIMIERA ADAMOWSKI: Creating Excellence in Crisis Care: A Guide to Effective Training and Program Designs. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA. 1998, 256 pp., $25.00, ISBN 0-7879-4071-2. This is a book about the organization of crisis-care...

A clinically orientated definition of psychoanalysis is proposed and distinctions are made between interactive counseling, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. Elements of the treatment, such as frequency, diagnosis, and use of the couch...

It is vitally important that psychotherapists bring a strong understanding of the nature of love to their work with the many clients who are struggling, in one way or another, with love relationships. With this in mind, the present paper is designed...

HENRY GREENSPAN: On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History, Praeger Trade, Westport, CT, 1998, 199 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-27595718-7. The art of listening and listening well is the basis of psychotherapy Amongst people needing to...

This article propounds that formal clinical frameworks do not provide answers to the significant technical problems that typically confront certain types of psychotherapists in their daily work. Specifically, it is claimed that for a certain class of...

SLATER: Prozac Diary. Random House, New York. 1998, 203 pp:, $21:95, ISBN 067945721-fi: Lauren Slater's Prozac Diary is worth reading for the language alone. After more than ten years on the drug, Slater mourns the loss of the white-hot, almost sexual...

JACK DRESCHER, M.D.: Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, Inc., 1998, 384 pp., $55.00, ISBN #0-88163-208-2 Before even reaching the first word of this book, I found myself braced for an assault. Its title points...

There is a palpable tension in the sexological literature between an empirical/biological approach that focuses on the phenomenology of sexual behavior and a theoretical/psychological approach that explores the quality of the subjective experience of...

JOHN BIRTCHNELL: Relating in Psychotherapy: The Application of a New Theory. Praeger, Westport, CT, 1999, 228 pp., $65.00, ISBN: 0-275-96376-4. Relating in Psychotherapy provides both a new theoretical basis for psychotherapy in various modalities and...

Treatment of couples presenting for therapy typically necessitates a process of riding out the storm of contention, entering the contextual framework in which the couple is relating and developing an understanding of the couple's interactive as well...

The article gives an inside look at a case where posttraumatic stress is intertwined with disturbances in object relations and ego-identity. The patient was a victim of a brutal authoritarian father who had abused her sexually. The trauma left her powerless...

RODNEY SLONIM, M.D., F.R.C.P.C.* BRIAN HODGES, M.D., F.R.C.P.C.** The psychodynamic life narrative is a statement that is made to the patient that gives current emotional reaction meaning in the context of his life history and shows it to be a logical...

The protagonist of Thomas Mann's novella Tonio Kroger is examined in terms of object-relational theory. This approach z's briefly compared with the interpretation that might be offered by structural theorists. Kroger, the son of an authoritarian and...

ROBERT ROSENBAUM: Zen and the Heart of Psychotherapy. Brunner/Mazel, Philadelphia, PA, 1998, 320 pages, $39.95, ISBN #0-87630-891-4. Buddhism has been a longstanding interest of psychotherapists. Recently, Molino (The Couch and the Tree, North Point...